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Archive for November 2016

Gartner - Akshay Sharma is leaving Gartner after more than a decade of service to the analyst firm. As a Research Director in Gartner’s Carrier Network Infrastructure group, Akshay’s areas of coverage included: mobile infrastructure, mobile broadband, cloud-based Telco 2.0, SDN and NFV, CDN, Wi-Fi, LTE-U, 5G, TV white spaces, small cells, VoIP, IMS, FMC, and trends in core network distributed softswitch architectures. It is not yet clear where he is headed or who will replace him.

Machina Research - IoT analyst firm, Machina Research has been acquired by Gartner as part of its strategy of expanding its IoT research offerings. Founded in 2011, Machina Research's analyst team will transition in its entirety to Gartner, including founders Jim Morrish and Matt Hatton. Gartner has more than 1,450 research analysts and consultants, with clients in 90 countries.

We’ve been fans of IoT Evolution (M2M Evolution in its original formation) and have been to every show. Unlike other IoT shows (and there are new ones every day), Carl and his team truly understand deep into the technology, as well as the business cases for IoT.